And Shannon planned to lead the conference in fouls drawn.
Game Thread: Illinois at Northwestern
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To me it doesn't matter. Not sure this team needs Sky to play injured....but Harris needs to stay on the court. Now the best offensive and defensive Illini are watching from the bench.
When you take a role player from a different team and tell him to come here and be the man its hard to tell him in season to stop trying to be the man.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
We are on a 10-3 run to open the second half.............Sounds like some adjustments were made at halftime........
seems like some Illini are playing with a lot of effort..........seems like some are not .........play the one's with the effort until they need a break.....
seems like some Illini are playing with a lot of effort..........seems like some are not .........play the one's with the effort until they need a break.....
We are turnover machines
That was good D by NW. We need RJ to show us something with Epps others with 3 fouls
Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
- Bloomington, IL
Nice to see Shannon grinning after draining that.
Good start offensively to second half....but we all know this team could fail to score the rest of the game.
MM can only win me back if he brings this hair back. Plain and simple this gets my respect.
Govoner Vaugn Fan
- New Orleans
Illini have yet to take a free throw tonight
DeonThomas
- South Carolina
Nice!
I heard rumors that, similar to Chet nowadays, Lou often laced em up and ran with the 89 squad......./s
Dainja sold that foul to the ref. Goo dplay
This is a good thing. We are terrible at free throws.
Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
- Bloomington, IL
Whistles starting to go our way finally.
In my opinion, why should NW foul? They are so careless with the ball, NW no need to foul as much.
In the 80s it was easy to go watch practice or scrimmages
It is simultaneously a miracle that we are winning this game, and a miracle that Northwestern isn't losing by 15 with how terribly they have shot the ball.
Did that free throw hit the corner of the backboard? Good lord that was ugly.
Now that's an insane stat. First free throw at nearly 27 minutes in?
That’s not as crazy as it sounds…
Podz certainly exhibited underclassman deficiencies on defense-no doubt…as does Skyy. BUT…
They did actually recruit Podz in the first place, correct? I presume they thought they could get him coached up on defense enough to at least be a serviceable back-up. Right? Podz at least has an extra year of experience that Skyy doesn’t have.
You don’t think we could have used his shooting? Don’t kid yourself, Podz could have given us some quality minutes here and there; and he would have more than likely ended up hitting some big shots for us too. (The trouble is, apparently he wanted to be the top dog; like everybody else in the world beside Trent Frazier and a handful of others.)
Pods is excelling out in Cali…albeit on a smaller stage.
Govoner Vaugn Fan
- New Orleans
FREE THROW
DeonThomas
- South Carolina
I just love Dainja in the paint! Smooth operator.
Great job by RJ there. Tremendous first step and quick decision
Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
- Bloomington, IL
He's been a different player on both ends of the court this half.
Whatever. Nerds.
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